Category: Bipolar Art

• The Door is Wide Open

  1–2 minutes

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  08/26/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, caregiving, cats, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, digital art, dreams, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, Injustice, Joy, learning, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings

  There are ideas percolating just beneath the surface of my consciousness. They are not fully fleshed out but the juices are flowing and I feel “on the verge” of a breakout work. What is a ‘breakout work’ you ask? Well, I’m asking too, and I believe there is a new direction coming. I have been…

  

• Forgetting the I

  1–2 minutes

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  08/19/2020

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, Confidence!, Creativity, dreams, Flowers, garden art, garden Photography, gratitude, Hope, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness

  …icky sticky hugs and kisses that Hurt too much to feel…

  

• Regaining Joy

  1–2 minutes

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  08/14/2020

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  art, Bipolar Art, Confidence!, Creativity, gratitude, Joy, Mania, mental illness, painting, Serenity, Success

  So, So Glad to be feeling like myself again. Taking it easy, not staying inside my head so much. Letting the colors and shapes do the talking…letting the details take the place of the racing thoughts. Dot, dot instead of thought-thought….

• Bad Bad Leroy the Paint Pen

  1–2 minutes

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  08/13/2020

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  acrylic, art, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Oil

  The words all run together, the letters messy on the keyboard. Tired but sleepless, fighting with little paint markers I ordered on EBay… Demanded a refund for the leaking, streaking, project-ruining, AWFUL Paint Markerz. Awful. Yet I sat here and fought with them for hours while working on a little handmade trash can I found…

• Another Voice in the Night

  1–2 minutes

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  08/11/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, dreams, Employment, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, hospice

  I was finally motivated to produce my second painting in the “Inside Voice”series. Although I am beset physically with devastating exhaustion, I was able this past week to get some work done. This is very encouraging, I have been fighting the fully immersing fatigue that envelops me each morning. .  I dosed myself up with…

• Water Flowing thru My Art Life

  1–2 minutes

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  08/07/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, dreams, gratitude, Mixed Media, oceans, pain, painting, poems, Therapy, treasures, voyages, Water

  Water…It gives life, it takes life. It’s waves hold the secrets of a million years…

  

• I Miss What I Imagined I would Miss

  2–3 minutes

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  08/03/2020

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  alzheimers, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Cancer, caregiving, Chronic Depression, clean, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, Denial, disability, dreams, Eternal Life, Excellence, faith, Finances, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, mothers, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, paradise Earth, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Ransom sacrifice, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repentance, repurposed, Salvation, Saving Money, Serenity, Shame and Guilt, shih-tzus, sobriety, Success, Teaching, The Bible, Therapy, treasures, Uncategorized, Universal Sovereign

  …the room seems to awaken with her…golden rays fall…like the petals of an opening rose…

  

• “INSIDE VOICE” a New Series of Works

  3–5 minutes

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  08/01/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, caregiving, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, Denial, disability, dreams, Employment, Excellence, faith, Finances, Flashbacks, full moon, photograph, pictures, digital photo art, custom art, learning , new ways to create, layout, publish, expand , giving, talent,into the new, outofthegutterart.com, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, identity, identity theft, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, mothers, out of the gutter, pain, painting, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repentance, repurposed, Salvation, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Top, Uncategorized

  “…look into this inner world and I promise I will use my “INSIDE VOICE”.